Thursday, May 26, 2005

My Favorite Books

I have a lot of favorite books. I like Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan, (I think Cirque du Freak means Circus of Freaks), I like Harry Potter, The Golden Compass series by Phillip Pullman, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, Bunnicula by James Howe, and a lot of other books. The books I mentioned are like this:
In the first Cirque du Freak book the main character, Darren, turns into a half-vampire, thanks to a full vampire named Mr. Crepsley. Darren is smart when he knows what is going on, but a total idiot when he doesm't. Some of my favortite parts in the books are when Darren keeps checking for fangs and when Darren tries to move a cross with his mind, only to learn that Mr. Crepsley (who is with him in that scene) really can't do magic at all.
Everyone knows what Harry Potter is like, so I will go on.
The Golden Compass is about a girl named Lyra who lives in a world where humans have daemons (an animal that is connected to it's human.) There is a mysterious force called Dust involved. In the second book Lyra meets Will, a boy who was from a different world and had murdered a person. Lyra and Will meet in a world where there are spectors. In the third book Lyra and Will go to the world of the dead, since Lyra wants to say sorry to a friend who died. Lyra has an alithiometer all through the books. An alithiometer is a truth teller. Lyra and Will get a knife that can cut into different worlds. I'm leaving a huge amount of things out in this description, and the books make a lot more sense of it than I do.
A Series of Unfortunate Events is where three orphans' house burn down, killing their parents. The orphans, who are called the Baudelaires, go of to live with Count Olaf, a greedy man who wants to steal the Baudelaires' enormous fortune. The Baudelaires live with guardian after guardian after they leave Count Olaf, and they thwart plan after plan of his. Plan after plan meaning a plan to steal their fortune.
Bunnicula is a book about a vampire rabbit. At night he sucks juice out of vegetables. Harold, a dog and the main character, likes Bunnicula in the end. Chester, Harold's friend who is a cat, tries to get rid of Bunnicula. He pretends he is a vampire in the presense of the human family. He puts garlic all over the house. He pounds a sirloin steak on Bunnicula in the daytime. In the end of the book, Chester has to go to a cat phyciatrist, Dr. Verruckt Katz.
I really like these books. Right now I'm reading the third and last book in The Golden Compass series. The three book are called: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.

PLEASE NOTE: I THINK THAT THE GOLDEN COMPASS SERIES IS REALLY THE HIS DARK MATERIALS SERIES.

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